Henry Yu curriculum vita - 1

1989 - 1994 Princeton University: Ph.D and M.A. in History 1985 - 1989 University of : B.A. in Honours History,

Academic Employment:

2016-2017 Stanley Kelley, Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in Asian American Studies, Princeton University

2011 – present Principal, St. John’s Graduate College, UBC

2003 - present Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia

Fall 2007 and Fall 2008 Acting Principal, St. John’s Graduate College, UBC

2001- - 2008 Associate Professor, Department of History and Department of Asian American Studies, UCLA

1994 - 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, joint appointment with the Center for Asian American Studies, UCLA

Fall 1997 Visiting Assistant Professor, History and American Studies, Yale University

1991 - 1992 Precept (Courses: U.S. West and Modern Chinese History), Department of History, Princeton University

Community Recognition

2015 Multiculturalism Prize, Province of British Columbia

1 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 2 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of community service

2007 “Unsung Hero” Community Service Award, National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) “Spotlight on Leadership” Awards

2007 Chosen as one of ’s “Bright Lights” in the annual “Best of Vancouver” Issue, Georgia Straight

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Academic Scholarships, Grants, and Prizes:

2014 “Fraser River Historical Sites Pilot Study,” $40,000 grant for $62,000 project, Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations, Province of British Columbia

2014-2019 “Hong Kong Canada Crosscurrents Project,” $20,000 seed grant from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Hong Kong Government

2009-2012 “Chinese Canadian Stories” $950,000 grant for $1.17 million project, Community Historical Recognition Program, Federal Government of Canada, http://chinesecanadian.ubc.ca

2010-2013 “The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Pacific Canada, 1858-2008,” Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2005-2008 “The Chinese Canadian Migration Project, 1885-1949,” Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2005 History News Network, “Top Young Historians” http://hnn.us//roundup/entries/21671.html

2002 Norris and Carol Hundley Prize for Most Distinguished Book of 2001, AHA-PCB

1998 Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Summer Research Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA

1997 Wesleyan University, Center for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow

1996 University of California Humanities Research Institute, Residential Fellow

1989 - 1994 Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, Princeton University Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship

3 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 4 Davis Merit Prize, Princeton University

1985-1989 Yoon Fong Prize, Best Essay in Chinese Intellectual History, UBC, Olaf Sjobolm Seagram Memorial Scholarship, UBC Mather Prize, Top Student in Honours History, UBC UBC Honour Scholarship Roy Daniells Creative Writing Scholarship, UBC T.S. McPherson Scholarship, University of Victoria B.C. Minor Football Association Scholarship

4 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 5 Scholarly Publications:

Books:

Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact and Exoticism in Modern America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)

Within and Without the Nation: Canadian History as Transnational History, edited with Karen Dubinsky and Adele Perry (Toronto: Press, 2015)

Essays and Articles:

“Constructing the ‘Oriental Problem’ In American Thought, 1920-1960,” in Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by James A. Banks (New York: Teachers College Press, 1996): 156-176

“Orientalizing the Pacific Rim: The Production of Exotic Knowledge By American Missionaries and Sociologists in the 1920's,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations, volume 5, numbers 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1996) ):331-359

"How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes," Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed, December 2, 1996

“The ‘Oriental Problem’ in America: Linking the Identities of Chinese and Japanese American Intellectuals," in Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities During the Exclusion Era, edited by K. Scott Wong (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998): 191-214

“Mixing Bodies and Cultures: The Meaning of America's Fascination With Sex Between ‘Orientals’ and Whites,” in Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, edited by Martha Hodes (New York: New York University Press, 1998): 444-463

"On a Stage Built By Others: Creating An Intellectual History of Asian Americans," in Millenium Series special issue on "History and Historians in the Making," edited by Valerie Matsumoto, Amerasia Journal (Spring 2000):141-161

Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, editors, entries on “Asian Americans” and “Ethnicity and

5 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 6 Race” (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 2001):Volume II: 311-319; Volume III:109-120

The Oxford Companion to United States History, Paul Boyer, editor in chief, entry on “Asian Americans” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001):51-52

"How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Post-National American Studies as a History of Race, Migration and the Commodification of Culture," essay in volume on Post-National American Studies, edited by John C. Rowe (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000)223-248

“Mixing Bodies and Cultures: The Meaning of America's Fascination With Sex Between ‘Orientals’ and Whites,” reprint of original essay plus primary documents for classroom use, in History of Sexuality in America, edited by Elizabeth Reis, volume in series edited by Jacqueline Jones, Readers in American Social and Cultural History (New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2001):283-309

"Tiger Woods at the Center of History: Looking Back at the Twentieth Century through the Lenses of Race, Sports, and Mass Consumption," in Sports Matters: Race, Recreation, and Culture, edited by John Bloom and Michael Nevin Willard (New York University Press, 2002):320-353

“Writing the Past in the Present," Introduction and Guest Co-Editor with Mae Ngai of Special Issue on "The Politics of Remembering,” of Amerasia Journal.(Winter 2002):xli-lii

"Tiger Woods is Not the End of History, or Why Sex Across the Color Line Will Not Save Us All," American Historical Review (December 2003)

“Los Angeles and American Studies in a Pacific World of Migrations,” American Quarterly vol. 56, no. 3 (September 2004):531-543

“Then and Now: Trans-Pacific Ethnic Chinese Migrants in Historical Context,” in The World of Transnational Asian Americans, edited by Daizaburo Yui (Tokyo: Center for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo, 2006)

“Is Vancouver the Future or the Past? Asian Migrants and White Supremacy: A Review Essay,” Pacific Historical Review vol. 75, No. 2 (2006):307-312.

6 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 7 “Reflections on Edward Said’s Legacy: Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Enlightenment,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 17, no. 2, (2006):16-31.

“Ethnicity,” in Keywords for American Cultural Studies, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler (New York: New York University Press, 2007):103-107

“Teaching Asian Canada: Beyond the Parallel,” with Rob Ho, Special Issue on “Pacific Canada: Beyond the 49th Parallel,” Amerasia Journal (Summer 2007):87-97.

“Towards a Pacific History of the Americas,” Introduction and Guest Co-Editor with Guy Beauregard of Special Issue on “Pacific Canada: Beyond the 49th Parallel,” Amerasia Journal (Summer 2007):xi-xx

“Refracting Pacific Canada,” Introduction and Guest Editor, Special Double issue of BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly no. 156/157 (Winter/Spring 2007/2008)

“Afterword” for “Asian Canadian Studies” Special Issue, Canadian Literature 199 (Winter 2008):202-207.

“Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada,” International Journal (Autumn 2009):147-162.

“Nurturing Dialogues between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities in Vancouver,” in Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, Mike DeGagné, editors, Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Diversity (Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2011):300-308.

“The Rhythms of the Trans-Pacific” and “The Intermittent Rhythms of the Cantonese Pacific,” in Donna Gabaccia, Dirk Hoerder, editors, Connecting Seas and Connecting Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s (Leiden: Brill, 2011)

“From Cantonese Pacific to Chinese North America,” chapter in Chee-Beng Tan, editor, Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora (London: Routledge, 2011)

“The Irony of Discrimination: Mapping Historical Migration Using Chinese Head Tax Data,” with Sally Hermansen, in Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin,

7 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 8 Editors, Historical GIS Research in Canada (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014) 225-237.

“Conceptualizing a Pacific Canada Within and Without Nations,” in Karen Dubinsky, Adele Perry, Henry Yu, Editors, Within and Without the Nation: Canadian History as Transnational History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015)

“Reviving a Lost Potential of the Chicago School of Sociology? A Century of Studies of Trans-Pacific Migrations,” Journal of Migration History 1:2 (2015):215–241.

“Asian Canadians,” in Eiichiro Azuma and David Yoo, editors, Oxford Handbook of Asian American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)

“Chinese Migrations,” in Michael Szonyi, editor, Companion to Chinese History (Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2017)

“The Cantonese Pacific: Migration Networks and Mobility Across Space and Time,” with Stephanie Chan, in Lloyd Wong, Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017):25-48.

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Academic Service

2013 – present Editor, Journal of Migration History

2013 – 2016 Board of Managing Editors, American Quarterly

2007 – 2010 Elected Executive Council, American Studies Association, President’s Executive Committee

2006 – 2009 Elected Member, Council, American Historical Association, Pacific Coach Branch

2006 Chair, Merle Curti Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians

2004 – 2012 Advisory Board of Editors, Amerasia Journal

2003 – 2007 Managing Board of Editors, American Quarterly

2003 – 2005 Elected Member, Nominating Committee, American Studies Association

2003 Member, Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize Committee, American Studies Association

2002 – 2004 Chair, History Book Prize Committee, Association for Asian American Studies

2001 - present Co-Director of the Asian Pacific American History Collective

1999 - present Co-Director of the Asians in the Americas Working Group

1999 Co-Founder of the History Caucus of the Association for Asian American Studies

1997-98 Chair, Joint AHA-Canadian Historical Association Committee, American Historical Association

9 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 10 Major University Committee Service at UBC

2012 – present Asian Canadian Community Engagement Committee

2008 - present Provost’s Advisory Committee on Equity and Diversity

2013 External Review Committee, Museum of Anthropology UBC

2008 – 2010 Working Committee on Equity and Diversity Strategic Plan

2009 – 2010 Search Committee for the Dean of Arts

2008 – 2009 Elected Member, Dean’s Asia Pacific Advisory Committee, Faculty of Arts

2007 – present Director, Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC), Faculty of Arts

Community Leadership:

2016 Historical Advisor and Co-Chair, Working Group, OpenSchool BC, K-12 education resource, “Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Legacies in BC” http://www.openschool.bc.ca/bambooshoots/

2015-17 Co-Chair, Legacy Initiatives Advisory Council, Provincial Government of British Columbia

2009-2012 Co-Chair, Steering Committee, “Dialogues Between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities” Project, City of Vancouver

2010-present Board Member, Vancouver Chinatown Foundation

2009-2010 Chinatown Historical Trust Steering Committee

2009 Chinatown Gala Dinner Committee

2007 - 2008 Co-Chair, Anniversaries of Change Steering Committee

10 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 11 2004 - present Board of Directors, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia

2004 - 2005 Steering Committee, Chinatown Historical Building Study, City of Vancouver

2003 - 2004 Founding Board Member, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia

1987 - 1989 Canadian Cancer Society, Vancouver, B.C. Chairman of the Chinese Canadian Community Education Committee; Secretary of the Ethnic Communities Fund-raising Committee

11 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 12 Academic Conference and Workshop Organization

July 2016 International Society for the Studies of Chinese Overseas, The 9th International Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Co-Chair, Organizing Committee and Program Committee

October 2015 Western Historical Association Annual Conference, Portland OR, Program Committee

May 2015 “Cantonese Worlds” Workshop, Hong Kong Canada Crosscurrents, Organizing Committee

June 2013 Asian Canadian Studies Network, Inaugural Conference, Organizing Committee, held at UVic

May 2012 World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries in Chinese Overseas Studies 5th International Conference, Organizing Committee

November 2009 Canadian Asian Studies Association Annual Conference, Program Committee

June 2008 Labour and Working Class History Association Annual Conference, Program Committee

September 2007 “The 1907 Race Riots and Beyond: A Century of TransPacific Canada,” Conference Committee, Vancouver, B.C.

March 2007 “Refracting Pacific Canada,” Conference Organizing Committee, UBC, Vancouver, B.C.

March 2007 “Visualizing Chinese in Indonesia and North America,” Conference Organizing Committee, UBC, Vancouver, B.C.

2004 – 2005 “Rethinking Chinatown: Urbanism Mediated Through Community,” Co-Organizer, Lecture Series, Green College, UBC

12 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 13 October 2002 “Selling Race: The Limits and Liberties of Markets,” Conference Organizer, UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies

13 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 14 Academic Conference Papers

October 27-30, 2016 “Uncovering Hidden Histories of Chinese Canadians: Use of New Media Approaches in Storytelling,” with Denise Fong, panel on “New Approaches to History Education and Cultural Redress” at 19th Bienniel Conference, Canadian History of Education Association, Waterloo, Ontario

December 14-16, 2015 "The Cantonese Pacific in the Making of Nations," at “The Relevance of Regions and Area Studies in a Globalized World,” Conference held at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv, Israel

October 21, 2015 Presidential Plenary Session: “Transnational Wests,” Western History Association 55th Annual Conference, Portland, OR

December 10-14, 2014 “The Cantonese Pacific: Understanding Recurring, Persistent Migration Networks Across Space and Time,“ International Conference for Trans-Migration and Everyday Life, Guangdong Qiaoxiang Cultural Research Center, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, PRC

June 13, 2014 “Mountains of Gold: Chinese Canadian Studies from the Cantonese Pacific to Global Migrations,” Canadian Studies International Conference, “Chinese Canadian Studies in the 21st Century: A Review,” Canadian Studies Center, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, PRC

March 13-14, 2014 “The Chinese Restaurant as Portable Template: The Use of Small Business and Life Cycle Mobility across the Cantonese Pacific,” Cultural Translation and Chinese Canadian Studies Conference, York University, Toronto, Ontario

November 22, 2013 “The Cantonese Pacific, Anti-Asian Politics, and the Making and Unmaking of White Settler Nations,” Invited Keynote Speaker, New Zealand Historical Association Biennial Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand

14 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 15 July 8, 2013 “The Cantonese Pacific and the Making and Unmaking of White Settler Nations” Invited Keynote Speaker, Australian Historical Association Annual Conference and Dragon Tails conference, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

November 2012 “The Irony of Discrimination: Mapping Historical Migraiton Using Chinese Head Tax Data” Panel Paper , Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C.

October 2012 “Don’t Bother with the Textbooks,” Presentation for “Controversies in Chinese and Asian Canadian Educational Histories and Their Implications,” Canadian History of Education Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C.

October 2012 “The Syncopated Rhythms of the Cantonese Pacific: White Supremacy and the Narrative Time of Settler Nations” Invited Speaker, “Scale and Racial Geographies” Conference, Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

May 2012 “The Cantonese Pacific and the Making of the Modern World” Keynote, World Confederation of Institutions and Libraries in Chinese Overseas Studies, Vancouver, B.C.

May 2012 “Engaging with the Reality of Canada” Keynote, “Theories, Politics, Pedagogies” Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

June 2010 “The Multiple Facets of Chinese Indigenization in North America and Across the Pacific” International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, Biannual Conference, Singapore

April 2009 “The Long History of Pacific Canada” Keynote, British Columbia Library Association Annual Conference, Burnaby, B.C.

15 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 16 March 2009 “The Long Chinese Pacific: A Counter History to the Narratives of White Settler Nationalism” Plenary Speaker, Pacific Words in Motion II, National University of Singapore, Singapore

February 2009 “Rethinking the Pacific in the Pacific Northwest” Pacific Northwest Speaker Series, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington, Seattle

April 23-25, 2009 "Conceptualizing a Pacific Canada Within and Without Nations" Invited Paper, “Inside and Outside the Nation: Canadian History as Transnational History,” Workshop, , Winnipeg

March 30, 2009 “Global Migrants and the New Canada: Switzerland of the Pacific?” Invited Speaker, Symposium on “Canada-Asia Relations: Looking Back, Looking Forward,” sponsored by Asia Pacific Foundation and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Ottawa, ON

June 7, 2008 “The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Bellingham and Vancouver: Moving Beyond White Supremacy” Panel Participant, Labour And Working Class History Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C.

March 2008 “Empire, States, and Migrants in Pacific History” Moderator for Panel Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New York, NY

December 2007 “The Pacific World” Connecting Atlantic, Indian Ocean, China Seas, and Pacific Migrations, 1830-1930 Moderator for Invited Panel at Conference German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

March 2007 “State of the Field: Immigration—Moving North Americans”

16 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 17 Paper Presentation for Panel for the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN

March 2007 “Contexts, Connections, and Comparisons: Trans-Pacific Migration and the Rhythms of National Exclusion and Inclusion” Presentation for “Visualizing the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia and North America” Conference at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

April 2005 “Changing Terrains” Presentation for Panel on “Asian Canadian Questions: Historical Recollections” for Association for Asian American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

April 2005 “Migration and the Generation of Race and Region” Presentation for State of the Field Forum on “Race as a Historical Concept,” for Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA

July 2004 “Canada, the United States, and Pacific Migrations: Using Family and Oral History to Make Connections” Paper for Panel on “Chinese Migrations to the Americas, 1850-1903” for “An International Conference Quong Tart and His Times,” Powerhouse Museum and Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

November 2003 “Tiger Woods is Good for Thinking: American Studies From the Perspective of Los Angeles” Paper for conference on “Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures,” Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA

May 2003 "Branding the Body: Tiger Woods and the Marketing of Race" Paper for panel “From Boys to Men: Asian Pacific Americans, Sport, and the Construction of Racialized Masculinity" Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA

April 2003 “Rethinking Orientalism: Insights from Asian American

17 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 18 History” Paper for panel on “U.S. Intellectual History: Insights from Asian American History,” Organization of American Historians (OAH), Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN

October 25-26, 2002 “Selling Race: The Limits and Liberties of Markets” Conference co-organizer, Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

July 2002 “A Joint Center for the Study of Pacific Migrations: Research Prospects for Australia and New Zealand” Australian Historical Association Biennial Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, and Chinese Australian Historical Society Conference (CAHS), Sydney, Australia

May 10 2002 “Counting Asians in the Americas: Preliminary Findings of The Census Project of the Asians in the Americas Working Group” “Asian America & the Asian Diaspora: An International Conference,” San Francisco, CA

April 2002 "Is An Asian American Intellectual History Possible? Thinking About Thinking Orientals" Plenary Session, Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City

April 2002 "Cosmopolitan Elites and the Commercialization of Race" Paper presented at Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

January, 2000 "Exoticism and a Market for the Marginal: The Value of Ethnic Knowledge, 1920-1960" Paper presented at American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Il

Nov. 21, 1998 “How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Multicultural Icon for Global Capitalism and American Black Male Body” Paper delivered at American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA

18 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 19 June 26, 1998 “How Did Tiger Woods Lose His Stripes” Paper for panel on “Ethnicity in Global Context” Asian American Studies Association (AAAS), Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI

June 25, 1998 “Post-Colonial Identities and Histories and Asian American Studies” Plenary Session Paper at the Asian American Studies Association (AAAS) Annual Conference, Honolulu HI

January 9, 1998 “History, Memory, and Identity: Towards a New Approach for Teaching History and Ethnic Studies” Paper for a panel on “Memory, Oral History, and the Creation of Ethnic Identity: Towards a Better Use of Public History in Teaching and in Museums,” American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA

September 27, 1997 “Creating the Narratiaves of Self-Identity: Social Science, Oral Life Interviews, and the Rise of Ethnicity in the 1920’s” Paper for a panel on “Memory and Ethnic Identity,” Oral History Association (OHA), Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

April 17, 1997 “Where is America?” Panel member for Plenary Session panel on Transnational History, Organization of American Historians (OAH), Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

August 9, 1996 “Modernity and the Rise of Ethnicity: Social Science and the Writing of Identity” Paper for a panel on “Writing the History of Social Science in a Post-Modern Age,” American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch (AHA-PCB), Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

November 9, 1995 “Social Science and Modernity: Racialized Intellectuals and the Marginalized Man”

19 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 20 Paper for a panel on “Race and American Social Science, 1900-1941,” American Studies Association (ASA), Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

November 18, 1995 “Maintaining Distance: Racialized Intellectuals and the Standpoint of the Stranger in American Social Science” Paper for a panel on “Theoretical Distance and Theories of Race,” Social Science History Association (SSHA), Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill.

June 2, 1995 “Thinking About Asians” Paper for a panel on “New Approaches to Asian American History,” as well as organizer and moderator for Forum Discussion on “History and Theory: The Impact of Cultural Studies and Theory on Asian American History,” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Oakland, CA.

April 21, 1995 “The Construction of the ‘Oriental’ in American Thought” Paper for a symposium discussing “Historical Perspectives on Race, Gender and Education: Implications for Multicultural Education,” American Educational Research Association (AERA) Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

April 2, 1995 “The ‘Oriental’ in American Social Science” Paper for a panel on “American Sociologists and the Uses of History in the Construction of Race,” Organization of American Historians (OAH), Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

August 12, 1994 “An America That Would Not Melt: The ‘Oriental Problem’ in American Thought” Paper given for a panel on “Race, Image, and Assimilation in the American West,” American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch (AHA-PCB), Annual Meeting, California State University, Fullerton, CA.

Invited Lectures and Presentations

20 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 21 March 17, 2017 "Crossing Oceans: Visualizing Trans-Pacific Chinese Migration," and workshop on "Using Smartphones to Do History." Digital History @ U-M: Workshop Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

February 6, 2017 "Away From the Lone Historian? Multidisciplinary Approaches in a Collaborative Research Lab" The Program in American Studies, Princeton University, Workshop Series,

October 3, 2015 “Present Tense: Chinese Migrations and the Making of Pacific Futures,” Invited Speaker, Pacific New England Consortium workshop on digital research and pedagogy in Asian American studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA

December 15, 2014 “The Cantonese Pacific and Global Family Business Networks in the 19th and 20th Century,” Invited Lecture, The Second Young Scholars Conference on China Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, PRC

November 26, 2013 “The Cantonese Pacific: Unsettling the Narratives of Settler Societies” Invited Lecture, “Australia in the World” Series, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

November 11, 2013 “The Cantonese Pacific: Migration, Historiography, and Unsettling Settler Societies” Invited Lecture, American Studies Program, Princeton University, Princeton NJ

October 2, 2013 “History-making, Knowledge Production, and Knowledge Transfer Using New Technologies” Keynote Speaker, Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C.

May 23, 2013 “The Hidden History of the Chinese Canadian Food Industry” With Alejandro Yoshizawa, Vancouver Historical Society Speaker Series, Museum of Vancouver

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January 12, 2013 “Uncovering Gold - Chinese Canadian histories through Graphic Novels, Video Games, and Data Visualization” Panel, Museum of Vancouver

December 2012 “Don't Bother with the Textbooks: Chinese Canadian Stories and Educational Resources Using New Technologies” Presentation for Making History/Faire L’Histoire, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario

April 16, 2009 “The Lost History of Pacific Canada” Invited Keynote Speaker, British Columbia Librariy Association Annual Conference, Burnaby, B.C.

March 14, 2009 “The Long Chinese Pacific: A Counter History to the Narratives of White Settler Nationalism” Invited Plenary Speaker, “Pacific Worlds in Motion II” Conference, National University of Singapore

February 9, 2009 “Re-Thinking the Pacific in the Pacific Northwest” Invited Lecture, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest Speaker Series, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

August 5-7, 2008 “Creating Libraries and Archives for the New (and Old) Canada” Invited Keynote Speaker, International Federation of Library Associations Satellite Conference,“Multicultural to Intercultural: Libraries Connecting Communities,” Vancouver, B.C.

June 15, 2007 “White Victoria, Chinese Vancouver? Empire, Migration, and Trans-Pacific History” Invited Keynote Speaker, “Deconstructing Empire II: Race, Migration, and Resistance to Empire,” Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

January 23, 2007 “The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Pacific Vancouver” Speaker Series, Vancouver Historical Society, Vancouver Museum

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November 13, 2006 “The Rise and Fall of the White Pacific: Chinese Migrations and the Making of Nations” Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies, University of Idaho

March 3, 2006 “The New Silk Road: Hong Kong Immigration to Canada, Past, Present and Future” Lecture for Inaugural Panel of the Richard Charles Lee Speaker Series, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

September 2005 “Then and Now: Comparing Contemporary and Historical Asian Migrants” Invited Paper for Symposium on Asian Migration in the Pacific, Center for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo

October 18, 2004 “The New Vancouver: Migration and How Chinatown has Changed Canada,” Green College 2004-05 Lecture Series “Rethinking Chinatown: Urbanism Mediated Through Community,” Green College, University of British Columbia

June 20-26, 2004 “Richard Alba Meets His Critics” Plenary Panel Speaker, and “Narrating Now and Then: Transnational Migration in Historical Perspective” Workshop Organizer, Social Science Research Council Summer Institute on International Migration

May 28, 2004 “The Dragon and the Orca: China’s Role in Vancouver’s Future” Forum Participant, Sixth Annual Business Leaders Forum, North American Association of Asian Professionals, Vancouver, B.C.

May 4, 2004 “Astronauts Are Not New: Transpacific Migration, Asian Transnational Business Networks, and Their Historical Impact” Lecture for Association of Chinese Canadian Professionals, Vancouver, B.C.

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April 3, 2004 “How Migration and Migrants Change History” Tri-Universities Symposium (Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, University of British Columbia), Held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

February 25-27, 2004 “Asian American and Asian Studies” Invited Seminar and Lecture Speaker, NEH Focus Grant on Re-envisioning Asian Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

February 16, 2004 “Rethinking Orientalism” Opening lecture in “Other Orientalisms” lecture series, Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women, Malcolm S. Forbes Center, the Department of English, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate Student Council, Brown University, Providence, RI

October 25-27, 2003 “Cantonese Worlds: Guangdong, Hong Kong, and North America” Panel Paper for “China Globalizing” Conference, Center for Chinese Research, Institute for Asian Research, UBC, Vancouver, B.C.

March 21-22, 2003 “Local and Comparative Contexts for Chinese Migration” Workshop on “Chinese Migrations,” Center for Chinese Research, Institute for Asian Research, UBC, Vancouver, B.C

February 4, 2003 “How to Write the Histories of Transpacific Migrations” Invited Lecture for Speaker Series “Conceptualizing Asian/American Space(s),” Scripps College, Claremont, CA

December 2002 “Thinking Orientals” and “Possibilities for Trans-Pacific Migration Research” Invited Lectures, Doshisha University, Kyoto, and Center for Pacific and American Studies, Tokyo University

April 16, 2002 “How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes” Invited Lecture, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New

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March 1, 2002 “Tiger Woods at the Center of History” Invited Keynote Address for “Capitalizing on Sport: America, Democracy and Everyday Life,” The Inaugural Conference of the Center on Democracy in a Multicultural Society, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

February 6, 2002 "How Tiger Woods Earned His Stripes: Racial Nationalism, Global Marketing, and Its Aftereffects" Distinguished Lecturer Series, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, University of California, San Diego

January 22, 2002 “The Danger of Orientals: Lessons from the Past” Invited Lecture, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine

March 12, 1999 "Model Minority Discourse in Higher Education" Panel Discussant, Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education (APAHE) Conference on "Redefining Merit After Proposition 209," San Francisco, CA

October 23, 1998 “New Directions in Asian American History” Panel for conference on “(Re)Searching Asian American Studies,” University of Wisconsin, Madison

February 13, 1998 “Exoticism, American Orientalism, and the Commodification of Ethnic Identity” U.S. West Seminar Lecture Series, Winter 1998 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

October 11, 1997 “History, Memory, Community” Panel member for roundtable discussion as part of conference on “Where is Home? A Conference on the Past and Future of Chinese in the Americas,” A/P/A Studies Program and Institute, New York University, New York

April 18, 1997 "Sites of Intersecting Global Diasporas in the Pacific Century" Chair and commentator for panel, Association

25 Henry Yu curriculum vita - 26 for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Fourteenth National Conference, Seattle, WA.

November 13, 1996 “Post-National American Studies” Panel member for a forum discussion organized by the University of California Humanities Research Institute, American Studies Association (ASA), Annual Meeting, Kansas City, KA.

October 27-28, 1995 Interdisciplinary Conference: “Race, IQ and Higher Education” Commentator for panel on “College Admissions and Race,” Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, University of California, San Diego.

February 17, 1995 “Spatializing Race: Mapping and Identity in American Social Science” Paper given to Urban Studies and Planning Colloquium Series, University of Southern California; and on October 16, 1995, the same paper was given to the Urban Studies and Planning Colloquium Series, University of California, San Diego.

February 8, 1995 “Twenty Five Years of Asian American History” Panelist for Colloquium on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Asian American Studies at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

April 1, 1994 “Constructing the ‘Oriental Problem’ in America” Paper given for a panel on “Constructing Identities in the United States,” Historical Studies Spring Conference, New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

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